transfuse

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  1. transitive verb To pour (something) out of one vessel into another.
  2. transitive verb To cause to be instilled or imparted: transfused a love of learning to her children.
  3. transitive verb To diffuse through; permeate: a glade that was transfused with sunlight.
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  • If the samples are collected often enough and at the right times, this long-term hematological monitoring of athletes offers the best current hope of catching those who transfuse their own blood, a doping method that is otherwise undetectable using conventional tests and which gives cheats a big boost by increasing the supply of oxygen to their muscles. —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • Antiplatelets  In the acute phase, it is common practice to transfuse five units of platelets to counterbalance the effect of antiplatelet agents [1,106,107]. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • They also discovered during the inspection that nurses treating the tiniest of babies had received no special training in how to transfuse blood into their delicate veins. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Police raided several residences and uncovered hundreds of doses of anabolic steroids, blood products, a list of cyclists the samples were apparently being prepared for and also machines to transfuse them. —  VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling
  • Most decisions to transfuse after surgery are made on the basis of a patient's haemoglobin level, regarded as a measure of the blood's ability to deliver oxygen around the body. —  Eye on Britain
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  1. Middle English transfusen, to transmit, from Latin trānsfundere, trānsfūs-, to transfuse : trāns-, trans- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. transfuser, from Latin transfusus, past participle of transfundere, pour out from one vessel into another: see transfund.
 

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